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Dominican University’s Brennan School of Business will present the third annual Edward A. Brennan Forum on Corporate Governance on Friday, April 25 at 7:30 a.m. at the University Club of Chicago, 76 E. Monroe St., Chicago.

The forum titled “How to React to the Large Investor” will address the growing power leveraged by activist investors, many of whom are penetrating the boardrooms, influencing the decision making, and prompting management shake-ups of some of the country’s largest corporations.

The panel will be moderated by Charles M. Elson, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He has served on the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Commissions on Director Compensation, Director Evaluation, CEO Succession, and Strategic Planning and was a member of its Best Practices Council on Coping With Fraud and Other Illegal Activity.

The distinguished panel for this forum includes Mark J. P. Anson, president and executive director of investment services at Nuveen Investments, a $175 billion asset management company, and former chief investment officer for the California Employees’ Retirement System, the largest pension fund in the country; and Ellen Carnahan, managing director and founder of Seyen Capital Management, LLC, a technology venture fund, and recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of the 100 most influential women in Chicago.

The panel also includes Ernest W. Torain, Jr., an attorney and shareholder at VedderPrice who regularly provides general corporate advice on periodic reporting under the Securities Exchange Act, shareholder and board of directors meetings, corporate governance and the creation and implementation of corporate compliance programs; and Carol J. Ward, vice president and corporate secretary of Kraft Foods where she provides legal counsel and guidance to the board of directors, senior management and employees on matters of corporate governance, corporate securities, and SEC reporting and compliance.

Breakfast will be served prior to the forum. Space is limited for this special event and reservations must be made by calling (708) 524-6234.

The Brennan School of Business at Dominican University was named in 2006 in honor of the late Edward A. Brennan, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Sears, Roebuck and Co., and his wife Lois L. Brennan, a 1955 alumna of the university.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “great school at a great price” for the tenth consecutive year.